Life in German-Occupied France | Animated History

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    Bibliography:
    Burrin, Philippe. France Under the Germans: Collaboration and Compromise. London: Arnold, 2000.
    Gildea, Robert. Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation. New York: Picador, 2004.
    Ousby, Ian. Occupation: the Ordeal of France, 1940-1944. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000.
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  • @TheArmchairHistorian
    @TheArmchairHistorian  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3052

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    • @yashwanthkumar4394
      @yashwanthkumar4394 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Was waiting for this video. Love your content

    • @pyeitme508
      @pyeitme508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wow cool!

    • @silber3155
      @silber3155 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tysm for doing this topic!

    • @za3bula309
      @za3bula309 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That means there wont be need of censoring the video right?

    • @doggylover7564
      @doggylover7564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hi

  • @lukad7744
    @lukad7744 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7008

    Imagine being a 40 year old at the time, you had spent months or even years fighting in the trenches during ww1 and now 20 years later your government surrenders after only 6 weeks

    • @Endless_May
      @Endless_May 3 ปีที่แล้ว +747

      Imagine having your country ravaged by years of war only to have people living in the one nation to see hardly any of those horrors on its own soil laugh at you for saving the monuments and history of your capital city

    • @nikolai3620
      @nikolai3620 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1355

      Imagine spreading cream cheese over your bagel that just came out of the toaster only to drop it on the floor and have it land face down.

    • @Endless_May
      @Endless_May 3 ปีที่แล้ว +262

      @@nikolai3620 That must suck

    • @OverLord-mw2be
      @OverLord-mw2be 3 ปีที่แล้ว +217

      Allied forces failed miserably in the initial fight against Germany. With the Germans high on meth, their blitz was overwhelmingly quick and took the allies off guard (allies were bunkering down like they did for in WW1). German tanks steamrolled through and Frances surrender was the unfortunate result, they weren't prepared.

    • @user-jk8hm7dp8c
      @user-jk8hm7dp8c 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I HAD IMAGINED IT. I WAS NOT SURPRISED

  • @wilshire36
    @wilshire36 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6060

    Me: They left the baby!
    The French Family: We’re gonna do what’s called a “pro gamer” move”...

    • @apples8232
      @apples8232 3 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      Haha grenade go brr

    • @calebquentel8837
      @calebquentel8837 3 ปีที่แล้ว +286

      Me: Bruh she dropped her whole ass baby on the floor.
      Baby: Is actually bundle of live hand grenades
      Me: Oh...

    • @aussiewater
      @aussiewater 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Zack Anthony It’s a meme.

    • @koimeme
      @koimeme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I said that too in my brain

    • @cocacolaman4522
      @cocacolaman4522 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      *skibidi bop mm dada plays*

  • @dr1Voss48
    @dr1Voss48 2 ปีที่แล้ว +772

    My grandmother was a resistance fighter and courier for the BBC in Normandy. She was in more gunfights than most vets and was a loaded pistol. She taught French until she was nearly 90 years old. Vive la France, la Liberté, et la Résistance!

    • @toddstevens13
      @toddstevens13 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did she teach the continual mass slaughtering of France's colonial countries citizens, hmmm.

    • @colestagg8682
      @colestagg8682 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Une bon person ta mama

    • @dr1Voss48
      @dr1Voss48 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@toddstevens13 She taught me French and about life. Not crimes she didn’t commit.

    • @dr1Voss48
      @dr1Voss48 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@colestagg8682 Merci!

    • @toddstevens13
      @toddstevens13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@dr1Voss48 So that is a no then. She was an immense Patriot and Hero, but to deny what Colonial Powers who did the exact same thing lessens,

  • @matbettez3495
    @matbettez3495 2 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    Id actually like to see what life was like in Germany post WW1 and Versailles Treaty. And then again post WW2. Those poor civilians had it rough.

    • @latergator4154
      @latergator4154 ปีที่แล้ว

      All lies they did not have it hard, they didn’t even welcome the American soldiers when they were liberated.

    • @grumbild3350
      @grumbild3350 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well they elected hitler so... in a way they are not all white

    • @GDL88
      @GDL88 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      They’ll never talk about that 😂

  • @Alija_Rez
    @Alija_Rez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10651

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    • @volkerwestphal3746
      @volkerwestphal3746 3 ปีที่แล้ว +193

      Yeah, if this is youtube schooling, better leave it be.

    • @whyhello9649
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    • @deadpork5201
      @deadpork5201 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      ...The German Panzer

    • @arandomseal4793
      @arandomseal4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      THE FUHRER DOES NOT WAIT FOR SPONSORS

    • @mistyjones9831
      @mistyjones9831 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      *Every person that gets sponsored*

  • @willgto3852
    @willgto3852 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4614

    “I’d like to talk about our sponsor, world of tanks”
    Double tap double tap double tap double tap double tap double tap

    • @mundea
      @mundea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      I had to like that, sucks that you're a City fan

    • @joaquinalfaro1789
      @joaquinalfaro1789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Mwansa Mundea The Football Fanatic 😂

    • @CBielski87
      @CBielski87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      >makes video about french occupation
      >uses german composition in louis [sic] of all sorts of french, "somber" music

    • @TheCart54321
      @TheCart54321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Exactly what I did

    • @hughsmith4464
      @hughsmith4464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sounds like the US today

  • @grouchypotatowolfpack5580
    @grouchypotatowolfpack5580 2 ปีที่แล้ว +197

    Reminds me of stories my grandad would tell me from the war. He was born in german-occupied Jersey, just off the coast of Normandy and Brittany. We had our own language here, Jerriais, but English was the more widely spoken one. Jerriais made a return during the occupation as it was close enough to French not to arouse suspicion, but not so close that the Germans who spoke French could understand what we were saying. Sadly, the language of my people is all but dead, with more and more native speakers dying each year and almost nobody learning it or speaking it at home.

    • @TheAzureNightmare
      @TheAzureNightmare ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What are more people speaking in the area now?

    • @genericorochimain7027
      @genericorochimain7027 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@TheAzureNightmare they speak French however many areas of Brittany still have a couple tens of thousands who speak our local Gaelic language Breton

    • @edienandy
      @edienandy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Did he ever talk about the beast of Jersey?

    • @cpj93070
      @cpj93070 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@genericorochimain7027Jersey? They are all British I don’t know what that guy is going on about?

    • @i-fart-n-elevators4610
      @i-fart-n-elevators4610 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      But now they have the luxury of Arabic as the fastest growing language

  • @chadczternastek
    @chadczternastek 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Absolutely love, love these. Keep it up. Different take and makes history interesting to watch.

  • @TheArmchairHistorian
    @TheArmchairHistorian  3 ปีที่แล้ว +6691

    We were not demonetized! TH-cam has been being 100 times better lately and the channel is doing really well. I don't want you guys to worry, we're getting through this :)

    • @valdemarb7692
      @valdemarb7692 3 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      Yeehaw, TH-cam finally understands

    • @Xaiff
      @Xaiff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      Glad that TH-cam wants to understand how history should be told AS IS.
      I was worried this video might got deleted.

    • @giantsfan714
      @giantsfan714 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Ayyy

    • @brendenhickman4198
      @brendenhickman4198 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      HEEEEEEEY! Good to hear :D

    • @Karifi
      @Karifi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Good news in these dark times

  • @theamazingraccoon3117
    @theamazingraccoon3117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1356

    “Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied France”
    Christoph Waltz: my time has come

  • @last9up
    @last9up 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I really like these videos. I'm always so focused on the weapons and battles of wars and don't usually think about the civilians and their lives. Thank you.

  • @zlate5943
    @zlate5943 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The animations, the History...
    Its absolutely Beautiful

  • @BastianErkel
    @BastianErkel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7376

    Fun Fact: France never actually switched back to their "actual" time zone. To this day they're still using the "German" time zone.

    • @chrish5222
      @chrish5222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1269

      It’s a souvenir.

    • @planetoftheweek
      @planetoftheweek 3 ปีที่แล้ว +641

      Wow I didn't know that. So when I travel to France I don't have to change my watch's time. Now that I think of it, it makes sense that France should have another timezone. More like the same the british have.

    • @rightand5719
      @rightand5719 3 ปีที่แล้ว +733

      Talk about being lazy

    • @jessicatitle6024
      @jessicatitle6024 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      @@rightand5719 😆😂🤣 good one!

    • @rightand5719
      @rightand5719 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Wait ent they use the Germany time zone

  • @BossDelta38
    @BossDelta38 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6236

    "Daily calories intake reduced to 1200-1500 calories."
    Leningrad: That's for a whole family, right?

    • @PeterPranker1
      @PeterPranker1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      A grad's gotta eat fam

    • @spicyleaves8876
      @spicyleaves8876 3 ปีที่แล้ว +253

      You mean the whole city

    • @Captain_FAIL
      @Captain_FAIL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +221

      For a family of 6,yeah. During the siege workers had only around 200 grams of bread a day aka couple of pieces. Soldiers had around twice as much,with other populus getting around 100-150 grams. People ate all of their pets,pigeons,rats,mice,all of them. Only after a month the siege started,cannibalism started too. A soup made out of fine animal skin shoes was the best dish one could have. About a million starved,couple hundred others because of exhaustion,illnesses and german bombings. German bombs took way less lives than anything else,though. Mainly bombing not the people but the infrastructure and etc. ruining the starving and already practically destroyed city even more.

    • @JesusChrist-qi8yo
      @JesusChrist-qi8yo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      North Korea: that's Kim's snack

    • @dalesabandal9113
      @dalesabandal9113 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@spicyleaves8876 damn bro you trippin. The whole city's calorie intake is too high. It was south of 1000 during peak fighting years.

  • @nazreidlover911
    @nazreidlover911 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Been on my recommended for ages, didn’t think it would be this good damn

  • @iphonecharger4185
    @iphonecharger4185 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    4:17 I love the irony with the café's name, literally translating to "Cafe of the peace" or "Cafe of peace". Nice little detail!

  • @davidcool5189
    @davidcool5189 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3123

    "...the French were subjected to an even worse fate; bureaucracy."
    The French now: The ride never ends.

    • @dofusquentin
      @dofusquentin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      i guess we kinda got the taste for it

    • @cyberrock9018
      @cyberrock9018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      David Cool th-cam.com/video/rQH-ING_yds/w-d-xo.html

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I don't get it?

    • @iordannelucas
      @iordannelucas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      germany rapes france
      50 years later
      france: i just cant quit you
      germany: shut up baby, i know it

    • @thegoodlord6518
      @thegoodlord6518 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      *Albert Camus has entered the chat*

  • @henrybricks2953
    @henrybricks2953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4589

    France: *Is occupied*
    German soldiers: it's free baguette

    • @vm360fly
      @vm360fly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      baguette*

    • @Paris-xv9sj
      @Paris-xv9sj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@vm360fly 🍾🍷🥖🥐

    • @pinhe1350
      @pinhe1350 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      🥐🍾🍷🥐🧒👦👧👦🧒

    • @metalgearray6832
      @metalgearray6832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Nothing like a traditionnelle!

    • @Ry3n590
      @Ry3n590 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      C'est vrai.

  • @nanamifan0220
    @nanamifan0220 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really appreciate these videos on France in world war 2. This and the video on vichy france are incredible and super engaging.

  • @anthonyvincent2967
    @anthonyvincent2967 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for this exceptionally great presentation!

  • @michaelfrancis6488
    @michaelfrancis6488 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4972

    Fun fact: before 1945, women gave birth to hand Grenades

    • @thebubbleteavibe
      @thebubbleteavibe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Yes

    • @victormanguy8156
      @victormanguy8156 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Wait, did they also gave birth to hand grenades?

    • @khalidhassan659
      @khalidhassan659 3 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      true my great-grandma was a garnade

    • @Megadextrious
      @Megadextrious 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      c'est vrai, le nom de mon grand oncle était Kaboom!

    • @godzillafanboy1824
      @godzillafanboy1824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Megadextrious Bonjour kaboom je suis nommer apre le chose amerique a lanser sur japone je mescuse pour mon francais terrible

  • @chilln0648
    @chilln0648 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3344

    What’ pains me is that the Germans had a guy named France Holder, but they didn’t use him to hold France.

    • @R0DBS2
      @R0DBS2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      The comment below me has more likes.
      Rico653 Caines is cool now, I'm not

    • @rico653caines3
      @rico653caines3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +336

      “Years of academy training WASTED!”

    • @lavellelee5734
      @lavellelee5734 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Your kidding

    • @mrspikeus1
      @mrspikeus1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +185

      @@lavellelee5734 He means Franz Halder. A German general.

    • @djnoise5305
      @djnoise5305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      That would be a big BRuh moment

  • @compelledpluto
    @compelledpluto ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I appreciate your accurate animation guys

  • @titoutafersit7757
    @titoutafersit7757 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I appreciate your video's bro you truly educate people shout out from Morocco

  • @erinboc8512
    @erinboc8512 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2559

    I went from “THEY LEFT THEIR BABY!!!” To “oh.”

    • @kidz4p509
      @kidz4p509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @Erin Boc Trust me. That got me too.

    • @dragonmade8243
      @dragonmade8243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      th-cam.com/video/yGjibp-Oh4c/w-d-xo.html

    • @cptslick141
      @cptslick141 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Ikr, i sure didn't expect a sack full of grenades lmao

    • @manger_22
      @manger_22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@dragonmade8243 i hate self promoters

    • @dragonmade8243
      @dragonmade8243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@manger_22 I hate communists but who cares honestly

  • @brandoncooney3435
    @brandoncooney3435 3 ปีที่แล้ว +672

    1:09 I had a mini heart attack when she dropped the so called baby

    • @mokka1115
      @mokka1115 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      *No! Not the Mk2!*

    • @jav9814
      @jav9814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      They were extremely expensive and useful

    • @jav9814
      @jav9814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Stink bomb on another level

    • @Ry3n590
      @Ry3n590 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I was just confused why she did it lol.

    • @blearyhaze985
      @blearyhaze985 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @salting at me no good, man LMAO

  • @5_qm610
    @5_qm610 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve seen this in my recommended for 6 months now, happy I finally got around to it.

  • @leftylimbo
    @leftylimbo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Bravo. These bite-sized morsels of WWII history are absolutely delectable. Thanks for all your effort in enlightening us to perspectives that aren't commonly seen. I'm inspired to find out more about the French Resistance. I can't imagine what it must've been like to take arms against a dominant military force; not only risking your lives but also that of your family and loved ones should you be caught.

  • @Feederfanis
    @Feederfanis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5171

    It's all fun and games until someone bypasses the Maginot line.

    • @pyeitme508
      @pyeitme508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Yeah, so lol!

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Is that still a thing even today?

    • @aztec0996
      @aztec0996 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@itsblitz4437 perhaps for the Soviets this time ? 🤔 nations under NATO that were formerly Eastern bloc nations have heavily fortified borders in case of Russian invasion

    • @harleyokeefe5193
      @harleyokeefe5193 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Zirmas you realise that the allied military planning wanted the Germans to bypass the maginot line, the point of the maginot line wasn’t to hold off the entire German army it was to secure the flank of the army while the main armies of Great Britain an France link up with Belgium forces in a pre decided defensive line. there is a myth around how the French didn’t expect the Germans to go through Belgium again when of course they expected it and that’s what decided french defensive planning in the interwar period. What ultimately doomed the allies is that they didn’t concentrate their forces correctly

    • @chanomjea6515
      @chanomjea6515 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @Zirmas Fix you comment to "it's all fun and games until some tank breakthrough ardennes forrest" Edit: change sedan to ardennes.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4212

    An Austrian invaded France to make them remember who actually invented the croissant

  • @Janovich
    @Janovich ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Great video. I was never aware that the French had it this rough during the occupation, but I should have suspected it ofcourse. Learned a lot.

    • @Goodiesfanful
      @Goodiesfanful ปีที่แล้ว

      There were those in the Reich who had it even worse than the French. The Slavs suffered even worse treatment because the Nazis regarded them as the most inferior, next to Jews. And there were the Dutch, who suffered mass starvation at the hands of the Nazis, and the Russians who died in the siege of Leningrad. And Poland was the centre of the Holocaust horrors, for it was where the Nazis installed the six death camps.

    • @FulhamboyH
      @FulhamboyH 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They like to think they were all hero’s , however they surrendered and collaborated with a small amount of resistance 🏳️🏳️🏳️

    • @Goodiesfanful
      @Goodiesfanful 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@FulhamboyH France did collapse pretty quickly once Hitler bypassed the Maginot Line, and in only six weeks. Come on! Couldn't they have put up a better fight? Ukraine hasn't collapsed, and it's been over a year since the war started.

    • @Marco-tf9lx
      @Marco-tf9lx 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Goodiesfanfulukraine have the world behind them
      france was pnly with uk and belgium

    • @adelaidesngan604
      @adelaidesngan604 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@FulhamboyHenglish army Dunkirk 🏃🏃🚣🚣🤡🏳️
      English army bir haikem 🏃🏃🤡
      English army Campagn of Africa retreat 600 kilometer 🏃🏃
      English army ww2 🏃🏃🤡🏳️🚣

  • @AngelNails363
    @AngelNails363 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bro I love this guy video, keep going!

  • @rondornay5583
    @rondornay5583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5137

    Before we talk about France suffering, I want to thank our sponsor, W O R L D O F T A N K S

    • @bluerisk
      @bluerisk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Brulez la Palatinate, Heidelberg deleta; they burned thousands of German villages to the ground, and now they cry murder because of a curfew...

    • @jensvanbockstal429
      @jensvanbockstal429 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      What about belgiums suffering being used as a meat shield and not getting credit for our victory of holding germany of france in ww1

    • @chainmail5886
      @chainmail5886 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      in collaboration with RAID SHADOW LEGENDS

    • @yoloswaggins1579
      @yoloswaggins1579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      If you use the code "I ❤ Hitler get REKT france" you get a free PzKpfw Maus! Sign up today!

    • @CBielski87
      @CBielski87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      >makes video about french occupation
      >uses german composition

  • @mvximus3188
    @mvximus3188 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3432

    I actually found out that my grandfather, in France (he was an American soldier), had a kid with a french woman and told nobody. I took a dna test recently and found out I had relatives in France, and that's how I found out. I met them earlier this year and they were some great people!

    • @bob494949
      @bob494949 3 ปีที่แล้ว +211

      That’s awesome. Found “lost relatives” myself in Germany and got to meet them. Ain’t it great to connect with your roots?

    • @pineapplesbringpain5243
      @pineapplesbringpain5243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      @@equarg Oh yes, I’ve heard of a similar story where a black couple had a child that was very light skinned *after* birth. The man accused her of cheating, but it was proven the child was his. Plus, some dark-skinned children are born very light after birth but regain their melanin later on.
      Though It’s funny because my brother was the opposite. He born with a tannish complexion, but his skin got lighter later on. He was also born premature, so that might explain it too.

    • @Auslaender16
      @Auslaender16 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@bob494949 from where are you iam a Naz... ah i mean Prussi... ahhhhh i i i mean Germany yeah yeah german😅😬

    • @udozocklein6023
      @udozocklein6023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Auslaender16 lmao xD

    • @thunderkatz4219
      @thunderkatz4219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I’m French on my dads side my friends don’t believe me because I’m black

  • @natashaprather9233
    @natashaprather9233 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    GREAT video!!! I’m a NEW fan!
    Great illustration!👍🏾👍🏾

  • @SIiyk
    @SIiyk ปีที่แล้ว

    The Fur Elise Fading in and out in the intro was exactly what the story needed!

  • @earthenjadis8199
    @earthenjadis8199 3 ปีที่แล้ว +501

    One thing about the artwork - The Germans never got the masterpieces from the Louvre like the Mona Lisa or the Venus de Milo. In 1939 all the artwork was split up and hidden in chateaus across the French countryside under the coordination of the curator, M Jacques Jaujard. The last piece of artwork left the Louvre on 3rd September 1939. The Mona Lisa had to be secretly moved five times throughout the war in a game of cat and mouse with the Germans.

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @armia krajova Yes, still, the Louvre gave them a hard fight because, "Merde."

    • @TheDanrox110
      @TheDanrox110 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Don’t know how accurate it is, but Robert Frankenheimer’s “The Train” is a great depiction of the Nazis trying to steal the art and the efforts of the French resistance

    • @timesnewlogan2032
      @timesnewlogan2032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Reminds me of the old movie "The Train," where the French Resistance keeps redirecting a German train of stolen artwork back into France.

    • @timesnewlogan2032
      @timesnewlogan2032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TheDanrox110 Well hell, small world! I always laugh at the part where they drop the sign on the water tower after the train leaves, revealing they're still in France.

    • @Orange-tf3dc
      @Orange-tf3dc 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      What’s up Camus?

  • @0311tard
    @0311tard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2212

    “Before we begin” *skip skip skip skip skip*

  • @devinallen827
    @devinallen827 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video is an absolute masterpiece

  • @CrazyInternetTales
    @CrazyInternetTales 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Really enjoyed the video, reminded me of some of my own

  • @adamcowboy476
    @adamcowboy476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3665

    Lol, i thought the husband and son were carrying a giant baguette. 🤣

  • @TomekHar
    @TomekHar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2444

    Everyone: talking about how hard it was to live in occupied France
    Meanwhile Poland: you what

    • @LeoInvictus
      @LeoInvictus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      Yugoslavia...

    • @stc3145
      @stc3145 3 ปีที่แล้ว +268

      Poles got only 1500 calories a day on average, 500 less than in France and western europe. And warsaw was completely destroyed unlike Paris

    • @tywinlannister8015
      @tywinlannister8015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      @@LeoInvictus At least Yugoslavia had Tito. Apparently the guy was such a threat that he was an Abwehr objective as early as 1941. A friend of mine read that in her grandfather's war diary.

    • @Greeneye567
      @Greeneye567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Greece was even worse

    • @obelic71
      @obelic71 3 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      @@stc3145 Few know that Warsaw was after Manilla in the Philipines the most ravaged city of WW2. Even more then nuked Hiroshima/Nagasaki and bombed Berlin/ Tokio
      Warsaw was for 85% totaly destroyed, Manilla 90%
      The Nazi's destroyed warsaw on purpose to quel the uprising.
      both had additional massive massmurder of civilians by the occuping armies during the uprising / battle.
      Warsaw 150.000+ and Manilla 100.000+

  • @simons.2948
    @simons.2948 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good history, I learnt a couple of new things👍

  • @Rwdy-jv8qc
    @Rwdy-jv8qc 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love your channel, sir.

  • @waltermodel8313
    @waltermodel8313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +900

    France:
    "We should reinforce the line! Quick!"
    Germany planning to flank instead: "Yes"

    • @bringensiemirfegelein1616
      @bringensiemirfegelein1616 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      69th like

    • @joemamaobama6863
      @joemamaobama6863 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Zeros DaBast not the third reich ,be proud of your grandpa tho

    • @billybuckley684
      @billybuckley684 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But that was a the whole point of the Maginot line, To force Germany to go through Belgium.

    • @billybuckley684
      @billybuckley684 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Multi exactly

    • @waltermodel8313
      @waltermodel8313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But the German blitzkrieg made it harder for France to defend because refugees start to go to France then after that they fought... But the Germans encircled Most of France's forces which lead them to low defence which means they can take France without really struggling of defenders

  • @webranger1
    @webranger1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +494

    Meanwhile on the Eastern front: Hell

    • @virgiljianu7166
      @virgiljianu7166 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @Дмитрий Климов From what I read,even the italian front was better than the eastern one

    • @suomi5475
      @suomi5475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      The eastern front was from when Hell froze over

    • @user-jk8hm7dp8c
      @user-jk8hm7dp8c 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *A PERSONAL LIKE FROM ME FOR THE RECOGNITION*

    • @dietsevolkspartijinternati1373
      @dietsevolkspartijinternati1373 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      German soldiers lived on like 200 calories a day after the Stalingrad encirclement.

    • @user-jk8hm7dp8c
      @user-jk8hm7dp8c 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@dietsevolkspartijinternati1373 Welcome to USSR. Stalingrad was a lesson for all of Europe.

  • @jeffblunte
    @jeffblunte 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wish this was 2 hours… this is amazing

  • @hoffstadt6
    @hoffstadt6 ปีที่แล้ว

    amazing videos, thanks so much

  • @tomhiscocks242
    @tomhiscocks242 3 ปีที่แล้ว +249

    Hitler to Mussolini: Congratulations you tried, here is a tiny piece of France

    • @Melnek1
      @Melnek1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      The truth is that those parts of France that Italy occupied were Italian before Napoleon III took over and the French state forced everyone to speak French and forget everything about being Italian.

    • @jameslegrand848
      @jameslegrand848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@Melnek1 Savoy and nice were given to France by the kingdom of Piedmont Sardinia as thanks for their help against the Austrians....

    • @Melnek1
      @Melnek1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@jameslegrand848 And...? This changes nothing, it was just another case of opportunistic acquisition of territory by France, taking advantage of the disunity of its Italian and German neighbors, of course, all in accordance with the international laws and practices of the time.
      My point is that the Italians had a legitimate claim to French territory that they occupied at WW2.

    • @FoxTrotteur
      @FoxTrotteur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@Melnek1 They had not a legitimate claim if the population wouldn't join.
      Furthermore, they were not italian but savoyards (in Savoy) and Niçois (in the County of Nice).
      Local languages, cultures and cuisine of these areas were pretty much different of the ones of Italy, and even though italian was the official language of Piedmont-Sardinia, it was the mother tongue of only 8% of the population (and french was the mother tongue of 5%) in 1860 in the county of Nice, a hundred years before WW2.
      They never "forgot" that they were Italians because they never were Italians. They were occitans highly influenced by Italy.
      What you're saying is as false as if i was pretending that Dutch people forgot they were German because they have been close culturaly and and were at one point in history in the same political entity.
      Mussolini had no valid claim on these regions and neither did he on Albania, Ethiopia nor Greece.
      Oh! And by the way "France taking advantage of a desunified Italy" is complete bullshit. They supported the unification of Italy, and fought by its side against the austrians. The french then conquered Lombardy that was under Austrian control and immediately gave it to Piedmont-Sardinia. The county of Nice and Savoy are gifts for the help of France that was crucial in the Risorgimento.

    • @PierrotHG
      @PierrotHG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Melnek1 You're a complete moron. Napoléon III supported italian unification and independance. As for Savoy being an italian land, thanks for the good laugh.

  • @antoiner5675
    @antoiner5675 3 ปีที่แล้ว +708

    In France we use the expression "to be called arthur" (Se faire appeler arthur) when we "get it in the neck", scolded. It's a reference to the german patrols yelling "Acht Uhr !" to those who were still outside after 8pm during the occupation.

    • @fantomasvsfantomas2288
      @fantomasvsfantomas2288 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Hahaha ! I thought it was a joke but it proved to be true when I checked !

    • @andymonk4089
      @andymonk4089 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Strange name of Arthur, I had 2 people that I called Arthur and it enraged them. I was very young, 10-17,never knew why that name enraged them, but they were too young also to grasp this reference.

    • @carlosmarcos1452
      @carlosmarcos1452 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And today Macron calls you "Sexologue" (Six O'Clock)

    • @MackNcD
      @MackNcD ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@fantomasvsfantomas2288 Who would make that up as a joke? Lol. It sounds like one of my grandparents anecdotes of the old country. (Proper use of the word anecdote - it doesn’t mean specific story, it means general story. I.e the barefoot children used to play the malde le fegn on the bridge after dark)

    • @MackNcD
      @MackNcD ปีที่แล้ว

      The dictionary disagrees but this is the way anecdote was used growing up…

  • @uihify
    @uihify 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i actually love these videos

  • @salaufer
    @salaufer ปีที่แล้ว

    2:41 you know it's a good game when their own ad shows the tanks clipping through each other

  • @silenthunteruk
    @silenthunteruk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +215

    Ironically enough, France did not change its time zone back after the war, staying on Central European Time with most of the EU. It also retains the use of identity cards to this day.

    • @skiteufr
      @skiteufr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      And the world uses passports (from the French "passeport" literally "let go through the port"), a French invention from centuries ago.

    • @fuqupal
      @fuqupal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Yeah, when I was changing planes in France in January I had to have my passport scanned 3 times.
      What a bunch of fascists.

    • @quintiax
      @quintiax 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@fuqupal How dare they

    • @mr.tobacco1708
      @mr.tobacco1708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      TFW your occupiers teach you how to things right so you keep using them after you get rid of them xD

    • @christianweibrecht6555
      @christianweibrecht6555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Would be much more convenient to carry a multiple purpose national identity card, then a driver's license, social security card, insurance card, etc

  • @bananalord8461
    @bananalord8461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +632

    No iron cross as a replacement yay
    Bruh even his background is animated amazing

    • @pottierkurt1702
      @pottierkurt1702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      If he would've changed in to the youtube logo on the ss police it would've been even better.

    • @zealousdoggo
      @zealousdoggo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That means that TH-cam demonitized the video :(

    • @bananalord8461
      @bananalord8461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Savage Historian indeed

    • @bananalord8461
      @bananalord8461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Zealous Doggo at least he got a sponsor to kind of make up for it

    • @YAH2121
      @YAH2121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @hellasow promote it? Its literally a video on nazi-occupied territory. Its like complaining about an american flag in a video on the allied-occupied Japan.

  • @melodywai
    @melodywai 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks this is a memory to me.

  • @earthworm_sallyearthworm_s3013
    @earthworm_sallyearthworm_s3013 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like how at 0:08, that’s an Inglorious Basterds reference

  • @smokyblackeyes3615
    @smokyblackeyes3615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +528

    Mother: Drops baby and help the son and goes into the darkness.
    Me: Wtf is wrong with you!
    Armchair Historian: shows the bomb as a baby.
    Me: makes sense if you want BOOM BOOM.

    • @meriraynor1870
      @meriraynor1870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I thought this when I saw it.

    • @memeicusgaming2197
      @memeicusgaming2197 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Talk about a baby boom

    • @aleryaniahmed5972
      @aleryaniahmed5972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Baby boomer

    • @Rwizaify
      @Rwizaify 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Were the French really using 6 y.o. kids to transport guns and explosives?

    • @levi_athon9648
      @levi_athon9648 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That woman: *the trickster*

  • @mr.barkyvonschnauzer1710
    @mr.barkyvonschnauzer1710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +467

    "Curfew from midnight to 6am?!?! Preposterous!!"
    Meanwhile in Leningrad

    • @neoarmstrongcyclonejetarms9326
      @neoarmstrongcyclonejetarms9326 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well yeah France surrendered

    • @snehalkrishnan618
      @snehalkrishnan618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Meanwhile in Leningrad...
      *crab rave music intensifies*

    • @dakoderii4221
      @dakoderii4221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Good thing they aren't doing curfews and mandatory ID cards like the Nazis anymore. Just a mandatory ID card, curfews, house arrest, mandatory vaccination, wearing of slave submission mask, mandatory closing of ONLY small business, churches, and banning of private gatherings. I guess we are doing it better than the Nazis because we hypocritically call tyranny as freedom. That is the secret to making it work! People that read history are idiots. Intelligent people watch TV and believe everything they see and hear while calling those that notice patterns and ask questions as "stupid" and "crazy".🤪

    • @gg_rider
      @gg_rider 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@dakoderii4221 Places have different local COVID laws but everyone understands them to be temporary. My US state has mild conservative restrictions, based on local medical expert opinions, but some people are arguing that common sense and slight inconvenience is tyranny. (Complete loss of income AND refusal by govt to supply the "paper" that is their exclusive monopoly, that IS tyrannical .. a Fiscal Holodomor unfolding.)
      Masks are no more slave submission in common spaces than masks worn by medical personnel, or mandatory hardhats & steel toed shoes at some work sites, or mandatory eye protection on welders, or mandatory uniforms at fast food, or mandatory coats and ties in some restaurants, or mandatory shoes/sandals and shirts to enter a convenience store to buy beer on the way to the beach.
      Masks are one more tiny rule added to existing rules of civil society ..
      I see a problem with some US locations closing restaurants even when they invest in outdoor dining. I went to an indoor Tex Mex restaurant yesterday .. there was a sheet of plastic separating booths but I admit it was altogether risky with everyone breathing the exhale of people nearby. If ONE of those hundred people was an asymptomatic carrier, I could have huge problems or death for a meal of chips and burrito.
      Yet I understand how contentious it is trying to balance the rights of consumers and the rights of small business with the rights of hospital medical staff and the goal to maintain some slack in terms of ICU beds and other resources.

    • @renaudfensie3020
      @renaudfensie3020 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Meanwhile in 2020

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fun fact: Before the war, France used the same timezone as the British isles. But Germany moved the French clocks forward an hour as they used the timezone we now know as Central European Time

  • @xkgxfjfzfjzzr6468
    @xkgxfjfzfjzzr6468 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is amazing quality 👏 🙂

  • @baconninja4481
    @baconninja4481 3 ปีที่แล้ว +574

    Mortar: Honey! I’m home!
    Artillery Shell: Where is our child?
    Mortar: Oh our son Grenades, I left him to play outside.

  • @valkvire72044
    @valkvire72044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    Germany: Victory in France
    Italy: What about me i fought the French too???
    Germany: Here take part of France (Participation Medal).

    • @deactivated5931
      @deactivated5931 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      if i was mussolini, id be happy with just corsica

    • @valkvire72044
      @valkvire72044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ata_cama Corsica would be a nice prize for the Mussolini and Italy. As for myself I might try to take hold of a couple French colonies in Africa.

    • @andyappleton3353
      @andyappleton3353 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's like when they gave Chewy a medal in ROS.

    • @thibskywalker4450
      @thibskywalker4450 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Italians didn't pass in the Alps

    • @valkvire72044
      @valkvire72044 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thib Skywalker Right and that’s why they received a participation award rather than an out right victory.

  • @sirmralexsir06
    @sirmralexsir06 ปีที่แล้ว

    Damn. Thanks for this one.

  • @liamfoneill
    @liamfoneill 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this aspect ratio. Looks amazing on my Galaxy S21

  • @shayanhasan2254
    @shayanhasan2254 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2550

    France: this occupation sucked its against humanity
    Also France after liberation : lemme get back to brutally ruling my colonies

    • @Inanchi05
      @Inanchi05 3 ปีที่แล้ว +221

      Let me keep my promise to Algeria and let them be free.
      Not!

    • @absolutebonkers9735
      @absolutebonkers9735 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      RIP Senegalese Tirailleurs

    • @lockeandrand
      @lockeandrand 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      Yep! Really worked out for those countries once France left, right?

    • @kamanashiskar9203
      @kamanashiskar9203 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Me: *Laughs in British*

    • @henrydelay1821
      @henrydelay1821 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Ali Ali ok Ali

  • @Big_E_Soul_Fragment
    @Big_E_Soul_Fragment 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1283

    France: gets occupied
    The French: *The revolution has begun.*

    • @nathanthecrane674
      @nathanthecrane674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      again

    • @scl1332
      @scl1332 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      Europe: Which one?
      France: Yes

    • @Phantom-qr1ug
      @Phantom-qr1ug 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      *Loads Welrod*

    • @Xaiff
      @Xaiff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yeah, the French people got a knack for revolutions.

    • @reyllantenefrancia5693
      @reyllantenefrancia5693 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Allies: We are going to push the Germans out of your border wanna come?

  • @JC-xq2zm
    @JC-xq2zm 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Late comment, but holy cow dude! Your animations are awesome

  • @brendansmith7842
    @brendansmith7842 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:40 moving the clocks forward by one hour, or springing ahead prolongs the morning darkness but makes the arrival of night later... It doesn't hasten the arrival of night.

  • @tommytran1183
    @tommytran1183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +426

    woman: *drops baby. walks off*
    me: WAS ZUM TEUFEL

  • @aclown36
    @aclown36 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1012

    Moral of the story:
    *Don't take a French person's wine,cheese,and baguettes*

    • @sheldo6
      @sheldo6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Ca cest certain!!!

    • @ryan_n05
      @ryan_n05 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Can verify this. Source: My German teacher lived in France for a while (i know, ironic)

    • @smokyblackeyes3615
      @smokyblackeyes3615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      When Baguettes are stolen, Amrys are fucking dead

    • @franie1210
      @franie1210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ce damage

    • @stephanmorales2748
      @stephanmorales2748 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I am half French and when someone takes my bread or cheese I go into rage mode.

  • @loganlabbe9767
    @loganlabbe9767 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    3:35 you cant prolong darkness AND hasten night at the same time. If the clocks were moved forward it would be darker in the morning and brighter in the evening

  • @maratang255
    @maratang255 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    0:49 scurry
    3:29 onset
    3:58 other than those
    5:01 on a daily basis
    7:55 able-bodied
    8:13 drastic measures
    9:16 quota

  • @greenflagracing7067
    @greenflagracing7067 3 ปีที่แล้ว +625

    The brutal suppression of France is brought to you by our sponsor, World of Tanks.

    • @rps9396
      @rps9396 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      lmao

    • @garrisonnichols7372
      @garrisonnichols7372 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🤣👍

    • @AssBeater-ov2ze
      @AssBeater-ov2ze 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      bruh its a good game it even has the maus

    • @justforrow
      @justforrow ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Imagine lmfao

    • @dannyzero692
      @dannyzero692 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Running over protesters in China since 1989! Guaranteed reliability in suppressing the local populace!

  • @NuggetInc
    @NuggetInc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    Lol Italy got a little bit of land as in a "participation award"

    • @Duke_of_Lorraine
      @Duke_of_Lorraine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hitler told Mussolini that if he wanted to take some land, he had to conquer it. I let you guess how effective was an unprepared attach through the Alps.

    • @Amin-js4en
      @Amin-js4en 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hey nugget

  • @sickgameplay13
    @sickgameplay13 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    man this is awesome!

  • @jl88570
    @jl88570 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice video. I'd like to see and a video about life in axis-ocupide Greece.

  • @nathanthecrane674
    @nathanthecrane674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1282

    why did you occupie france?
    germany: mOney

  • @BuffyPickle
    @BuffyPickle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +374

    4:24 I love that shot of the Frenchie, just completely takes all the stereotypes for French citizens: thin mustache, cigarette in his mouth, restaurant owner, pissed off, formal dressing, it’s just great.

    • @oldarthurmorgan6319
      @oldarthurmorgan6319 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lmao

    • @ommsterlitz1805
      @ommsterlitz1805 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      restaurant owners are pissed off only to american tourist who don't try to speak French especially in Paris

    • @Auslaender16
      @Auslaender16 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@oldarthurmorgan6319 reminded u on charles chatene from stranger misssions didnt it well arthur pls watch my vid because im arogant

    • @oldarthurmorgan6319
      @oldarthurmorgan6319 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Auslaender16 lol

    • @Auslaender16
      @Auslaender16 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@oldarthurmorgan6319 well iam atleast admiting

  • @det0n654
    @det0n654 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your thumbnail was that good! Now i have a new wallpaper

  • @JJ-gl3qr
    @JJ-gl3qr 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It’s just so crazy like. Actual people were living their life like this, and now we watching it on TH-cam it’s crazy

  • @ThisisBarris
    @ThisisBarris 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    A beautiful video Griff! Very well done with a true artistic flair. My grandfather was actually an STO during WW2 and apparently he nearly died towards the end because of allied bombing and starvation as the Germans abandoned the STOs to fend for themselves. As always, thanks for letting me voice for it! Merde!

    • @ThisisBarris
      @ThisisBarris 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lazy Lamar I cracked the enigma machine

    • @tristan889
      @tristan889 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lamar493 patreon get special access

    • @butterygoodness8242
      @butterygoodness8242 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shopa Pozhiratel' and Members of the YT channel

  • @dylanroemmele906
    @dylanroemmele906 3 ปีที่แล้ว +775

    I didn't know HOI4 lore was this deep

    • @zajemc2604
      @zajemc2604 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      You made my frickin day. Nah, week.

    • @nenggo2540
      @nenggo2540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lol

    • @anthonykatsivalis224
      @anthonykatsivalis224 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Yeah bro, just you wait for the lore of the German invasion of the Soviet Union

    • @okay38
      @okay38 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lmao

    • @justforrow
      @justforrow ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice one

  • @volutionx9874
    @volutionx9874 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the Tarantino reference from ‘inglorious basterds’ to hit start the video!

  • @luciannelea50
    @luciannelea50 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    my great aunt was in her late teens/early 20s during ww2 and lived in a small village near nice in vichy occupied france. i grew up hearing stories about it from her. the farmhouse that had been in our family for centuries was then used as a meeting place for nazis and they forced her and her husband to be servants to them (and according to family rumors, they also killed her newborn infant with poisoned milk). the farmhouse now belongs to my parents and you can see where swastikas were carved into the walls by the soldiers. her husband died shortly after the war and she herself recently passed in 2020. she was an amazing and strong woman with so many stories

    • @phlm9038
      @phlm9038 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How was it under Italian occupation ?

    • @jeancharlessabatier7836
      @jeancharlessabatier7836 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Menteuse

  • @scottlawson2028
    @scottlawson2028 3 ปีที่แล้ว +275

    Yet again no history regarding armchairs

    • @solosalvador
      @solosalvador 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      He should do something like for that for April fools lmao

    • @soldatdaniels8738
      @soldatdaniels8738 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pffffffhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Good one.

    • @aarongranda7825
      @aarongranda7825 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They go all the way back to Babylonia.

    • @paulinbrooklyn
      @paulinbrooklyn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha. For similar reasons, I still don’t understand “To Kill a Mockingbird”.

  • @boborno
    @boborno 3 ปีที่แล้ว +810

    Fun fact: The lights on the Eifel tower were installed in 1987

    • @LKaramazov
      @LKaramazov 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Really?

    • @Manning218
      @Manning218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Cool

    • @triv3501
      @triv3501 3 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      Actual fact: Gas lights were used in 1889, until electrical modernization in early 1900's.
      www.toureiffel.paris/en/news/130-years/brief-history-towers-lighting

    • @tomcreaniceman7426
      @tomcreaniceman7426 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Fun fact Europe is crumbling

    • @0raph
      @0raph 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      this is brillant!

  • @grelomia
    @grelomia ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Amazing episode. Cannot imagine how much suffering was in the hearts of all the French survivors. Bless them for their resilience. Btw, could it be possible to have a similar episode for the Netherlands? Thanks again for your contribution

    • @Ratselmeister
      @Ratselmeister ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bless them? Ever heard about Versaille?

    • @PotDeMiel8000
      @PotDeMiel8000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@Ratselmeister ever heard of struhtof ?

    • @Pyxlean
      @Pyxlean 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@RatselmeisterOh look, a Nazi who uses whataboutism to justify the existence of one of the most horrifying, brutal and authoritarian regimes in history.

    • @ivoforivory7
      @ivoforivory7 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@PotDeMiel8000 ever heard of your parents?

  • @outlaw3146
    @outlaw3146 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this is one of those videos that truly depicts how awful war is. Thank you!

  • @remindertostayhydrated602
    @remindertostayhydrated602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +239

    Hey guys remember to stay hydrated today!

  • @collinandersen3369
    @collinandersen3369 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    The grenade baby is only slightly more prone to blowouts than the regular variety.

  • @markchristian8122
    @markchristian8122 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I was literally so confused and laughing so hard when the mother dropped his baby, but it was just tons of grenades.

    • @capncake8837
      @capncake8837 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was actually surprised at how many there were. I think a baby’s blanket filled with grenades is probably the definition of irregular warfare.

  • @unlieverything83682
    @unlieverything83682 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fur Elise is so calming

  • @kevinhixson1586
    @kevinhixson1586 3 ปีที่แล้ว +414

    You should do average life in Mussolini's Italy.

    • @FlagAnthem
      @FlagAnthem 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Not that different: misery, rationing, propagandistic bombing, mass sistemic corruption and engineered inefficencies (ever wondered why Italy was so unprepared for war?)
      resistence slowly taking shape then exploding after september 8th, while the Salò puppets helping nazis with deportations and retaliations.
      The "when HE was there..." gold era is a huge propagandistic LIE Italy is still struggling to shake it off.

    • @Dadouf112
      @Dadouf112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      North or south?

    • @davidcena9795
      @davidcena9795 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      life wasn't that bad BEFORE the start of the war, it was the same sometimes even better than France or UK to say some countries, after that when the war started situation degenerated and the resistance started taking power

    • @tea4223
      @tea4223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      France, Italy... had it good compared to what the Japanese did in China.

    • @daniele5349
      @daniele5349 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tea4223 shut up capitalist

  • @AltsekBUL
    @AltsekBUL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1349

    Now I would like to hear about the life in French occupied Germany during Napoleon.

    • @sinctova
      @sinctova 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Lmao, yeah i hope armchair historian sees this.

    • @drybrucke1
      @drybrucke1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      The Confederation of the Rhine?

    • @getsbigger604
      @getsbigger604 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@drybrucke1 no.... Prussia

    • @getsbigger604
      @getsbigger604 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@drybrucke1 Prussia represents Germany lol

    • @huguesjouffrai9618
      @huguesjouffrai9618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      Napoléon never occupied Prussia
      He beat the Prussian army and didn't stay. He never wanted to conquer Prussia and exploit it whereas the Nazi occupied France to get tons of resources and defend against a possible invasion. He was happy With having the confederation of the Rhine between Prussia and France.
      He did occupy Spain and some parts of Italy though.
      Even Egypt for a time before he was emperor

  • @Scott-mp5kr
    @Scott-mp5kr ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hello. You did a GREAT job on this video. From a former US Army Officer....keep up the very fantastic work. :-D

  • @JRGProjects
    @JRGProjects 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    German Occupation of France can also been seen on Star Trek Deep Space Nine where the Cardassians Occupied Bajor. Also the Federation citizens created a group called the Maquis to fight the Cardassians off of the Alpha Quadrant DMZ.

  • @heywooddjbelome2021
    @heywooddjbelome2021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1859

    Germans looted priceless treasures from museums that the French themselves had looted from Egypt and the middle east.

    • @hz.mevlanacelaleddin-irumi5399
      @hz.mevlanacelaleddin-irumi5399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +191

      it's all lies to make the nazis look bad

    • @merrickx
      @merrickx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      The Germans wanted to preserve that which the prophecied would be ruined, and what are we watching a single lifetime later?.........

    • @merrickx
      @merrickx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      The Germans wanted to preserve that which the prophecied would be ruined, and what are we watching a single lifetime later?.........

    • @TheGoofyAhhStonerShow
      @TheGoofyAhhStonerShow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@hz.mevlanacelaleddin-irumi5399 it wasn't to make nazis look bad it was to make the French look good

    • @clashthegamer4873
      @clashthegamer4873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      But... Egypt was under the control of the UK, was this a joke about how English and French museums both contain a bunch of relics which aren't theirs?

  • @brizzo4554
    @brizzo4554 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    There is an animated series that showcases a little of the life in occupied France, at least in the lives of a group of children. “The Long Long Holiday”

  • @novoavern
    @novoavern 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i spat out my drink when i saw the sponsor was world of tanks omfg